Steve Tull
I’ve been working with fictional literary characters to be made into ceramic sculptures formed into the way I’ve imagined them. The following quote is about a sea captain named Wolf Larsen described by the narrator, a bookish and awestruck Humphrey Van Weyden.
"The face, with large features and strong lines, of the square order, yet well filled out, was apparently massive at first sight; but again, as with the body, the massiveness seemed to vanish and a conviction to grow of tremendous and excessive mental or spiritual strength that lay behind, sleeping in the depths of his being. The jaw, the chin, the brow rising to goodly height and swelling heavily above the eyes, --these while strong in themselves, unusually strong, seemed to speak of an immense vigor or virility of spirit that lay behind and beyond and out of site. There was no sounding such a spirit, no measuring, no determining of metes and bounds, nor neatly classifying in some pigeonhole with others of similar type."
-----The Sea Wolf (chapter 3) by Jack London